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Anybody with a reasonable income can become financially independent in a lifetime.

The reason that so few people are financially independent today is that they place many negative roadblocks in their heads. Becoming wealthy is, in fact, a mind game.

I've always earned my own money and enjoy being independent. It's how I was brought up.

For women especially, it's important to be financially independent.

Financial independence is paramount. My mom always says that when a woman is financially independent, she has the ability to live life on her own terms. I think that was the soundest advice that I ever got. No matter where you go in life or who you get married to, you have to be financially independent - whether you use it or not.

Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

I'm for economic independence.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

And it is this sense that some of us have to contribute to the culture, to the society in ways that may hurt financially, so what? We do it because we are born to do it, we feel we have no other choice and so be it.